Section 326IAC8-5-5. Graphic arts operations

   (a) This section applies to packaging rotogravure, publication rotogravure, and flexographic printing sources as follows:

(1) Sources existing as of November 1, 1980, whose potential emissions of VOC are greater than ninety (90) megagrams per year (one hundred (100) tons per year).

(2) All new (after November 1, 1980) sources, located anywhere in the state, with potential emissions of twenty-two and seven-tenths (22.7) megagrams (twenty-five (25) tons) per year or more VOC.

(3) As of October 1, 1993, all sources located in Lake County or Porter County as follows:

(A) Sources whose potential emissions of VOC are greater than or equal to twenty-two and seven-tenths (22.7) megagrams (twenty-five (25) tons) per year are subject to the requirements of this section and the requirements of 326 IAC 8-1-9 through 326 IAC 8-1-12, as applicable.

(B) Sources whose potential emissions of VOC are less than twenty-five (25) tons per year but greater than or equal to ten (10) tons per year are exempt from the emission limit requirements of subsection (c), the capture system requirements of subsection (d), and the capture system requirements of subsection (e) but shall comply with the requirements of 326 IAC 8-7-2(c) and 326 IAC 8-1-9(b).

(C) Sources whose potential emissions of VOC are less than ten (10) tons per year shall comply with the requirements of 326 IAC 8-1-9(b).

(4) As of April 1, 2011, all sources located in Lake County or Porter County in which the total actual VOC emissions from all flexible packaging printing lines, including related cleaning activities, are equal to or exceed fifteen (15) pounds per day, before add-on controls, shall comply with subsection (f).

  (b) The following definitions apply throughout this section:

(1) "Flexible packaging printing" means the performance of packaging flexographic printing or packaging rotogravure printing. Flexible packaging refers to any package or part of a package the shape of which can be readily changed.

(2) "Flexographic printing" means the application of words, designs, and pictures to a substrate by means of a roll printing technique in which the pattern to be applied is raised above the printing roll and the image carrier is made of rubber or other elastomeric materials.

(3) "Packaging rotogravure printing" means rotogravure printing upon:

(A) paper;

(B) paper board;

(C) metal foil;

(D) plastic film; and

(E) other substrates;

that are, in subsequent operations, formed into packaging products and labels for articles to be sold.

(4) "Publication rotogravure printing" means rotogravure printing upon paper that is subsequently formed into the following:

(A) Books.

(B) Magazines.

(C) Catalogues.

(D) Brochures.

(E) Directories.

(F) Newspaper supplements.

(G) Other types of printed materials.

  (c) No owner or operator of a facility subject to this section and employing solvent-containing ink may cause, allow, or permit the operation of the facility unless:

(1) the volatile fraction of the ink, as it is applied to the substrate, contains twenty-five percent (25%) by volume or less of VOC and seventy-five percent (75%) by volume or more of water;

(2) the ink as it is applied to the substrate, less water, contains sixty percent (60%) by volume or more nonvolatile material;

(3) the owner or operator installs and operates:

(A) a carbon adsorption system that reduces the VOC from the capture system by at least ninety percent (90%) by weight;

(B) an incineration system that oxidizes at least ninety percent (90%) of the nonmethane VOC (VOC measured as total combustible carbon) to carbon dioxide and water; or

(C) an alternative VOC emission reduction system demonstrated to have at least a ninety percent (90%) reduction efficiency, measured across the control system, and has been approved by the commissioner; or

(4) for packaging rotogravure and flexographic printing processes, the ink, as applied to the substrate, meets an emission limit of five-tenths (0.5) pound of VOC per pound (five-tenths (0.5) kilogram (kg) of VOC per kg) of solids in the ink.

  (d) The following facilities subject to this section shall comply with the capture system requirements in subsection (e):

(1) Facilities existing as of July 1, 1990, with potential VOC emissions of ninety (90) megagrams (one hundred (100) tons) or greater per year located in Clark, Elkhart, Floyd, Marion, or St. Joseph counties. These facilities shall attain compliance with subsection (e)(1) no later than July 1, 1991.

(2) New facilities, construction of which commences after July 1, 1990, with potential emissions of twenty-two and seven-tenths (22.7) megagrams (twenty-five (25) tons) or greater per year located in any county.

(3) Facilities located in Lake County or Porter County with potential emissions of twenty-two and seven-tenths (22.7) megagrams (twenty-five (25) tons) or greater per year, prior to controls, from inks, coatings, and adhesives combined. These facilities shall attain compliance with subsection (e)(1) no later than October 1, 1993, and the flexible packaging requirements in subsection (e)(2) no later than April 1, 2011.

  (e) A capture system must be used in conjunction with the emission control systems specified in subsection (c)(3) as follows:

(1) The capture system shall attain an efficiency sufficient to achieve an overall control efficiency, in conjunction with the emission control system, of the following:

(A) Seventy-five percent (75%) for publication rotogravure processes.

(B) Sixty-five percent (65%) for packaging rotogravure processes.

(C) Sixty percent (60%) for flexographic printing processes.

(2) For flexible packaging printing presses, on and after April 1, 2011, the capture system shall attain an efficiency sufficient to achieve an overall control efficiency, in conjunction with the emission control system, of the following:

(A) Sixty-five percent (65%) for a flexible packaging printing press that was first installed prior to March 14, 1995, and that is controlled by an add-on air pollution control device whose first installation date was prior to January 1, 2010.

(B) Seventy percent (70%) for a flexible packaging printing press that was first installed prior to March 14, 1995, and that is controlled by an add-on air pollution control device whose first installation date was on or after January 1, 2010.

(C) Seventy-five percent (75%) for a flexible packaging printing press that was first installed after March 14, 1995, and that is controlled by an add-on air pollution control device whose first installation date was prior to January 1, 2010.

(D) Eighty percent (80%) for a flexible packaging printing press that was first installed on or after March 14, 1995, and that is controlled by an add-on air pollution control device whose first installation date was on or after January 1, 2010.

  (f) Work practices shall be used to minimize VOC emissions from cleaning operations. Work practices shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1) When not in use, all cleaning materials shall be kept in closed containers.

(2) Cleaning materials shall be conveyed from one (1) location to another in closed containers or pipes.

(Air Pollution Control Division; 326 IAC 8-5-5; filed Mar 10, 1988, 1:20 p.m.: 11 IR 2545; filed Apr 18, 1990, 4:55 p.m.: 13 IR 1685; filed May 6, 1991, 4:45 p.m.: 14 IR 1723; filed Aug 9, 1993, 5:00 p.m.: 16 IR 2828; filed Apr 22, 1997, 2:00 p.m.: 20 IR 2321; readopted filed Jan 10, 2001, 3:20 p.m.: 24 IR 1477; filed Nov 3, 2009, 3:29 p.m.: 20091202-IR-326090220FRA)